FICP Profile: Lindsay Maloni
Meet Financial & Insurance Conference Planners board member Lindsay Maloni, conference and event planner, MetLife...
FICP Profile: Koleen Roach
Meet Financial & Insurance Conference Planners board member Koleen Roach, director, meetings and conference management, Securian Financial Group...
KPIs: The New Measure of Meetings Management
Your meetings management goals are aligned with overall corporate goals, right? So how do you prove it? How do you know if you’re veering off track? How do you know where to make adjustments for a changing environment? Enter the key performance indicator. ...
Meeting Association Powwow Planned
Putting Meetings and Travel Center Stage at Mid-Term Elections
Meetings industry professionals have an opportunity to ask lawmakers such as Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark.; and Florida Governor Charlie Crist about their positions on travel and meetings-related issues through U.S. Travel's new initiative that seeks to thrust the industry into the 2010 elections....
Commentary: JetBlue's Spin Control Gets Half the Point
After flight attendant Steven Slater took his storied slide to freedom from a JetBlue aircraft at JFK International Airport August 9, the company won praise for its surprisingly understated response to the story....
BestCities Celebrates 10th Year, Names New Chairwoman
Eight worldwide destination marketing organizations have spent 10 years creating service standards and marketing best practices for international meetings....
International Business Travel on the Upswing
Despite a dramatic decrease in the number of U.S. business travelers headed overseas in 2009, the first four months of 2010 are showing signs of life....
Seoul, London, and Sydney Create Meetings Partnership
The Future Convention Cities Intitiative will gather top worldwide meeting destinations to share research best practices....
Texts and the City: MPI New England Loves SCVNGR Event
For this year’s annual summer outing, the New England Chapter of Meeting Professionals International found an activity that engaged both buyers and suppliers, encouraged networking and interaction, was on the cutting edge of technology—and also got high marks for being a blast. Check it out....
Best and Worst Cities for Travel Taxes: New NBTA Study
The National Business Travel Association Foundation and Concur, the Redmond, Wash.-based provider of spend-management services, have produced their annual report on taxes and fees on travel services, revealing the U.S. cities with the highest and lowest tax burden. ...
App Overload? New Portal Sorts Them for Meeting Pros
A new site focused on smartphone apps for meeting professionals has just launched at MeetingApps.com. The portal, listing about 500 apps, was created by Kirsten Strand, CMP, CITE, CMM, CEO at Invenia, a Vancouver, British Columbia–based site selection and meeting consultancy....
Tool Time: Travel Sites, Travel Apps, Travel Ease
On the road again. Summertime is travel time for so many of us, which makes it a great time to share some Web tools and phone apps designed to help us travel more efficiently, whether for planning meetings, attending meetings, or for pleasure trips....
Virtual Meeting Use: It’s Nearly Unanimous
A remarkable 96 percent of meeting and event planners report that their organizations use virtual meetings solutions—either Web-based meetings, videoconferencing, or TelePresence. That finding comes from a comprehensive and wide-ranging study on meeting policy and spending released earlier this summer by travel-management giant Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Minnetonka, Minn. ...
Why Planners are Heading to the 2010 FICP Annual Conference
Attending the 2010 Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Annual Conference in November is a great way to experience the new Fontainebleau Miami Beach. But it's a lot more, too...
Hyatt Introduces Worldwide Sales Strategy for Insurance and Financial Planners
As of September 1, Hyatt properties worldwide will be consolidated under one national sales umbrella, making global sourcing simpler for insurance and financial services planners....
The Promise of Hybrid Meetings
For Christopher Gribbs, managing director, convention, at the American Institute of Architects, the “aha!” moment for the potential of virtual meetings came at the 2009 AIA Annual Conference in San Francisco....
NBTA Is Abuzz About SMM; Name Change
Strategic meetings management has been a recurring theme at the National Business Travel Association International Convention and Exposition, which opened Sunday in Houston. ...
How Would a UAE BlackBerry Ban Affect Meetings?
Early this month, the United Arab Emirates, home of up-and-coming meeting, convention, and incentive destinations Dubai and Abu Dhabi, announced that it would shut down BlackBerry data service on October 11 if an agreement isn't reached that allows the country's regulators to tap into encrypted BlackBerry messages. ...
MPI WEC 2010: Tools, Tips, and Trade Shows
MPI's 2010 annual congress focused on sustainability, the value of meetings, and careers....
Registered Traveler: Back in the Fast Lane?
Registered Traveler, the program created by the Transportation Security Administration then run by the private sector to move pre-screened travelers quickly through airport security, is set to relaunch after going belly up a year ago. Indianapolis Airport Authority, working with iQueue Priority Access, will begin fast-lane service on August 16....
12 Tips for Top-Notch Production
An in-house production expert reveals planners' best bets for working with directors, producers, and other AV challenges....
Myths and Realities: The CVB and DMC Quiz
CVBs only care about citywides, right? DMCs just do ground transportation, don't they? We've got a few more myths to dispel....
Your Contract Negotiation Wish List
A panel of planners and hospitality partners at the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners 2010 Northeast Region Summer Meeting recently shared their biggest wishes for the negotiation process. Can we all find common ground? Check out the conversation...
FICP Shifts Board, Executive Director Roles
The Financial & Insurance Conference Planners board of directors boosts its focus on strategy, FICP headquarters names a membership manager, and Executive Director Steve Bova ramps up relationship management....
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